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Disentangling Long-Term Memory via Latent Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning

arXiv 2609.18461 ↗First posted 16 Sep 2026cs.AI cs.CL cs.LGcited by 1

On the map: LLM reasoning → Reasoning for agents, planning and code

Abstract (arXiv)

Personalized agents are required to reason over long-term history interactions to infer both explicit preferences and implicit behavioral evidence. While early flat retrieval methods score memory fragments independently and neglect the distributed information, current structured memory frameworks rely on query-agnostic static graphs that fail to capture the context-dependent relations. Crucially, raw textual memories are inherently entangled and noisy, making fine-grained personalization and cross-session reasoning computationally prohibitive. To this end, we present LGM, a novel neuro-symbolic framework that shifts long-term memory disentanglement into a continuous latent space. Specifically, (i) instead of persisting fixed graphs, we design a tailored latent graph construction with a sparse autoencoder. Subject to each query, it maps historical interactions into latent memory nodes and disentangles the memory traces into sparse concept activations, dynamically synthesizing query-aware relational edge weights. (ii) A graph encoder then treats the query embedding as a conditioning preference to direct non-linear message passing across the task-specific latent subgraph. This yields a highly expressive memory representation for effective activations. Extensive experiments on long-term personalization benchmarks demonstrate that LGM significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in capturing both explicit and implicit preferences while enabling personalized responses.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Reasoning for agents, planning and code, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 38 of its 47 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 16 Sep 2026.

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